Greensboro Sit-Ins

• When was the Greensboro Sit-Ins?

  February 1960
• What were the causes of the Greensboro sit-ins?

  • 4 black college students in North Carolina Uni refused to leave segregated lunch counter at Woolworth's
  • inspired by MLK
  • hypocrisy of Woolworth as the could shop with whites but not eat with whites
• What happened in the Greensboro sit-ins?

  • when asked to leave they refused
  • police called but no initial arrests
  • other students copied forcing the cafeteria to close
  • attracted publicity
  • 70,000 students joined sit-ins across south
• What was the outcome of the Greensboro sit-ins?

  • helped erode Jim Crow laws across south
  • loss of business made Woolworths desegregate cafeterias 1961
  • 150 cities desegregated various public areas
  • black students started the committee Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee in 1961 (SNCC)
• What was Ike's response?

  • coming to the end of presidency
  • didn't directly respond but was sympathetic